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FOR  THE 


Purchase  of  Camp  Ground 


AT 


SEA  GIRT. 


James  Smith,  Jr.,  and  William  L.  Dayton,  Esqs., 

AGENTS. 


TRENTON,  N.  J. : 

The  John  L.  Murphy  Pub.  Co.,  Printers. 


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REPORT 


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STATE  AGENTS 

FOR  .THE 

Purchase  of  Camp  Ground 


AT 

SEA  GIRT. 


James  Smith,  Jr.,  and  William  L.  Dayton,  Esqs., 

AGENTS. 


TRENTON,  N.  J. : 

The  John  L.  Murphy  Pub  Co.,  Printers. 


REPORT. 


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To  his  Excellency  Robert  S.  Green , Governor , and  Hon.  E.  J.  Ander- 
son, Comptroller  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey : 

The  undersigned  agents  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  appointed  by 
your  Excellency  to  acquire,  by  purchase,  for  the  public  use  of  the 
State  as  a military  encampment  for  the  military  forces  of  the  State, 
all  that  certain  tract  of  land  situate  at  Sea  Girt,  in  the  township  of 
Wall,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  and  State  of  New  Jersey,  de- 
scribed in  the  act  by  virtue  of  which  said  appointment  was  made, 
being  an  act  entitled  “A  supplement  to  an  act  entitled  ‘An  act  to 
take  for  public  use  a tract  of  land  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  in  the  county 
of  Monmouth,  and  to  vacate  the  streets  and  ways  thereon,  and  to 
take  and  extinguish  certain  easements  thereon  and  therein/  approved 
February  twenty-first,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-eight,” 
which  supplemental  act  was  approved  May  ninth,  anno  domini  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  immediately  after  their 
appointment  as  such  agents,  proceeded  to  perform  the  duties  imposed 
upon  them  by  said  act,  and  they  hereby,  on  this  sixth  day  of  December, 
anno  domini  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighty-nine,  respectfully 
report  that  they  have  been  unable  to  discover  and  agree  with  the 
owners  and  incumbrancers  of  and  upon  the  land  described  in  said  act, 
for  the  purchase  thereof,  and  they  further  report  that  there  appears 
upon  record  in  the  Court  of  Chancery  of  New  Jersey,  in  a suit  wherein 
Elleston  P.  Marsh  et  al.  are  complainants,  and  The  Sea  Girt  Land 
Improvement  Company  are  defendants,  an  injunction  granted  by  said 
court,  on  the  sixteenth  day  of  February,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  eighty-six,  perpetually  enjoining  the  said  company  from  doing 
any  act  or  thing  to  or  towards  vacating  any  of  the  streets,  alleys, 
public  grounds,  or  any  part  of  the  town  plot  of  Sea  Girt,  and  from 
disposing  of  the  lands  which  are  described  in  the  act  aforesaid,  for 
the  purpose  of  a rifle  range,  &c.,  or  for  auy  other  purpose  inconsistent 
with  the  establishment  of  a town  or  city,  and  from  selling  said  lands 

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CAMP  GROUND  AT  SEA  GIRT. 


or  any  part  thereof,  free  from  the  easements  and  servitudes  of  the 
streets,  avenues  and  alleys  shown  on  a map  or  plan  filed  in  the  clerk's 
office  of  the  county  of  Monmouth,  including  the  streets  and  ways  set 
forth  in  the  said  supplemental  act,  which  injunction  would  seem,  at 
this  time,  to  prevent  the  owners  and  incumbrancers  from  making  and 
executing  valid  conveyances  and  releases  to  the  State,  to  vest  the  title 
to  said  lands  in  the  State  free  and  clear  from  all  incumbrances. 

JAMES  SMITH,  Jr., 
WILLIAM  L.  DAYTON, 

State  Agents , (fee. 


